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Nipun Kisari

3×3 one-handed · top 0.2% of 73,695 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017KISA01

Nipun Kisari has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 7.97, set at Troy Story 2023, puts him in the top 0.2% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30th in the United States. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since January 2017, he has put 1,432 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.10 in January 2017 to 5.70, a 37% improvement. Nipun has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.2% of 73,695 all-time
7.97
signature single · Troy Story 2023
1,432
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed7.9711.20
top 0.2%30 / 15,683
3×35.706.95
top 0.33%221 / 59,724
2×21.081.68
top 0.72%301 / 40,951
4×425.7030.19
top 0.9%151 / 19,072
5×51:03.771:06.34
top 7.6%600 / 9,401
Skewb3.876.84
top 10.0%1,533 / 18,907
Megaminx1:04.811:12.76
top 12.6%863 / 7,841
6×62:07.182:17.57
top 14.2%516 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves36.67
top 20.4%446 / 2,040
7×73:35.823:41.59
top 21.9%622 / 3,184
Pyraminx8.6011.61
top 41.4%11,866 / 28,708
3×3 blindfolded2:29.762:58.24
top 43.1%918 / 2,092

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 9.10WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 8.09Maybe Melrose Spring 2017: 8.31Weston Fall 2017: 8.26Cubing with the Viking 2017: 8.02BA Cube Fest 2018: 7.41BU Spring 2018: 7.40Connect Community 2018: 7.79MIT Fall 2018: 7.68The Battle of Lexington 2018: 7.86Boston University Winter 2019: 8.10Salem Cube Trials 2019: 7.82Cubing in Cambridge 2019: 6.66Massachusetts Championship 2019: 7.40Quabbin Summer 2019: 7.34MIT Winter 2020: 7.53Maine Spring 2022: 7.35Saint John's Spring 2022: 6.76CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 6.93Naticube 2022: 5.70Troy Story 2023: 6.53Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023: 5.93Northampton Winter B 2023: 6.88Connecticut Spring 2023: 5.71Return to Quabbin 2023: 6.61CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.33CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 6.11Northampton Fall B 2023: 5.71Northampton Newcomers A 2024: 6.31Amherst Fall 2024: 6.725.709.1028 Jan 201723 Nov 2024

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.97 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.